Abdullah Gül

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In less than a week, Turkish voters will cast their ballots
in local elections widely seen as a test
of support for embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has faced
growing questions about official corruption since a high-level probe first
became public in December. Although many observers believe Erdoğan will survive
the current
political crisis , the prime minister's increasingly autocratic
posturing has given rise to questions about his long-term political
viability.

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San Francisco, February 6,
2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish President Abdullah
Gül to veto the Internet
bill passed Wednesday by the Turkish
Parliament. The bill would grant the Turkish government unprecedented
control over the Internet by allowing Web pages to be blocked without a court
order, requiring mandatory data retention by Internet Service Providers, and
authorizing the government to seize user data on demand, all without meaningful
procedural safeguards.

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Istanbul, April 25, 2013--An Istanbul court convicted a
Turkish editor of "publicly insulting the president" and sentenced him to a
conditional term of 14 months in prison, according to news reports. Ali Örnek would
be jailed if he repeats the perceived offense sometime in the next five years
under amendments to Turkey's criminal code introduced in 2012.

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Sidebar: Online Censors Sharpen Tactics

By Danny O’Brien

As Deniz Ergürel and his Media Association colleagues prepared for a
meeting with President Abdullah Gül in June 2011, they searched for a
damning example of how illogical Turkey’s Internet censorship had
become. They didn’t have to look far. In an attempt to enforce a
sitewide ban on Google’s YouTube, Turkey’s Internet service providers
had engineered a blockade against all Google services—including the
mapping application that would have provided them with directions to the
presidential residence, Çankaya Köşkü.